Italian producer of artisanal sweetened creams liqueurs and traditional liqueurs is looking for distributors

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Summary: 
An Italian producer of artisanal and entirely handmade sweetened creams liqueurs and traditional liqueurs, based in Messina (Sicily) seeks distributors to promote the Italian and international tradition of artisanal liqueurs. The company is interested in partners operating in the high-end HoReCa (Hotels, Restaurant, Café/Catering) sector.
Description: 
The company is based in Messina (Sicily) and was established in 2011. It is a company producing high quality and entirely handmade artisan liqueurs obtained by fresh and first quality raw materials. Most of them come from the agricultural Sicilian productions (such as lemons, wild fennel, prickly pears, and so on). Their products do not contain added dyes, thickeners or flavorings and every raw material is selected, cleaned and processed by hand, within very few hours from the harvest, in the company’s laboratory. Company’s mission is to give a new identity to the Italian (and international) tradition of artisan liqueurs, reinterpreting ancient recipes with modern taste, through a constant commitment to the achievement of quality and excellence. Colors and scents of the Mediterranean are contained in a unique, harmonious and timeless bouquet, sublimated in hand sealed bottles. All this gives delicacy and elegance to company’ sweetened creams and liqueurs. The complete range products is composed by 4 liqueurs and 4 creams. They include: - Lemon liqueur, also called “Limoncello”, made thanks to the freshness of the best "Interdonato" lemons produced by the company itself. The Interdonato lemons, are a graft between citron and lemon, created in 1875 by the colonel Giovanni Interdonato, which grows in the Ionian coast of Sicily. The liqueurs has a delicate and embracing fragrance and flavor; - Cinnamon liqueur, its thousand-year old history qualifies Cinnamon as the most ancient spice. With its dry and bitter aroma, and spicy as well as sweet notes, cinnamon gives a seductive sensuality to the product; - Wild fennel liqueur, it is intense, strong and determined, with a rich and aromatic fragrance and healthy features; - Liquorice liqueur, it is a strong and soft liqueur and it is made with the best liquorice in the world growing in the Calabrian Ionian coast; - Almond sweetened cream liqueur, which has a fragrance with an assertive but delicate character; - Prickly pears sweetened cream liqueur, made with fruits having a bitter form from the outside, but hiding a sweet pulp. The intense smell and flavor give to the product unique features; - Lemon sweetened cream liqueur, its colours, its heady fragrance, its extraordinary strenght make the lemon the “King of the citrus fruits”, with a special mix with the gentle flavour of the milk; - Pistachio sweetened cream liqueur, made with “the Sicilian green gold”, a precious ingredient that makes the taste of this liqueur, sweet, gentle and aromatic. The company is currently developing its sales network all over Italy, and now is looking for foreign partners. In particular, since it is a young company, it would like to focus on EU and penetrate in new markets. The company is looking for distributors operating in the high-end HoReCa (Hotels, Restaurants, Café/Catering) sector, with a consolidated experience in the food & beverage industry. The company can provide the distributor with catalogues of its products, price list and offered volumes for each item.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought: 
What is expected from the partner is an absolute seriousness, reliability, ethics, professionalism and an active and fruitful collaboration. Foreign partners should help the company to develop business and achieve sales objectives, respecting the company strategy , as well as to cooperate in promotion activities. Partners should have a proven sales experience in the food & beverage industry, an established network of high-end customers and/or HoReCa chain, an excellent knowledge of the dynamics of the industry within their internal market(especially with regard to the spirits market). Role of partner: in the framework of distribution services agreement, potential partners should buy the products of the company for further distribution; while in the framework of commercial agency agreement the partners will be representing company's interests in the foreign markets.
External code: 
BOIT20200518001